Please be absolutely, completely clear in expressing yourself, and make sure that the people who are listening to you understand exactly what you mean, so there's no confusion whatsoever and then no one will get hurt okay?

On September 29, The Onion newspaper tweeted that there was a hostage situation in the Capitol.
The tweet, which read "BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building," went out to more than 3 million followers, and gave no indication that it was a joke. Some quickly suggested that the account had been hacked; an Onion spokesman said that was not the case, and the